From: Ingo Molnar decrease the rate of timers going off. Also work around apparent kbd-init bug by making the first timeout short. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner -- drivers/input/serio/i8042.c | 2 +- drivers/input/serio/i8042.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.18-mm2/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.18-mm2.orig/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c 2006-09-30 01:41:08.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.18-mm2/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c 2006-09-30 01:41:20.000000000 +0200 @@ -1101,7 +1101,7 @@ static int __devinit i8042_probe(struct goto err_controller_cleanup; } - mod_timer(&i8042_timer, jiffies + I8042_POLL_PERIOD); + mod_timer(&i8042_timer, jiffies + 2); //I8042_POLL_PERIOD); return 0; err_unregister_ports: Index: linux-2.6.18-mm2/drivers/input/serio/i8042.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.18-mm2.orig/drivers/input/serio/i8042.h 2006-09-30 01:41:08.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.18-mm2/drivers/input/serio/i8042.h 2006-09-30 01:41:20.000000000 +0200 @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ * polling. */ -#define I8042_POLL_PERIOD HZ/20 +#define I8042_POLL_PERIOD (10*HZ) /* * Status register bits. -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/